| $12.01
new to stock as of
february 16th, 2008
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| | | w.m.o/r (germany) #w.m.o/r 28 cd josetxo grieta “euskal semea” compact disc - epeear semea i ( version for 20 guitars
- broken glass
- 3 watering cans and voice)
(22:47)
- epeear semea ii (with drums and vocals) (28:11)
| | two pieces from the basque “power trio” of mattin, inigo eguillor, and josetxo anitua in a loose, electro-acoustic blow-out style. the first is a huge morass of cracked electronics; the second introduces near-steady drumming ... |
| | josetxo grieta
euskal semea
w.m.o/r 28
cd with 12 p. booklet
josetxo grieta is the triangle composed by josetxo anitua (voice & radio), inigo eguillor (drums) and mattin (voice & guitar).
"euskal semea" is the basque redefinition of "european son" (lou reed's particular homage to his mentor delmore schwartz, poet and professor at syracuse university).
those two tracks are a punch in the face and a brillant exemple of creative music coming out from bilbao."epeear semea i" starts with a gentle field recording (the audience waiting for chaos?) till a low end aquatic drone enters. things are getting fucked up from here: abrupt soundscapes growing and making you loose the sense of orientation progressively."epeear semea ii" features repetitive and nicely broken drums with flashes of insane vocals and guitar building into a very intense freak out before slowly going away. when the music stops it makes you realize that this is a live recording, while people clapping hands politely after such a sonic storm. the artwork is beautifull: a big size glossy paper 12 pages booklet (with a nice bloody banana on the cover) featuring texts (partly in english) including lyrics, creative comments about the recordings and some clues about the perception of a so called national identity by basque artists. antoine chessex |
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